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SentencingStats.com, a leading provider of federal sentencing analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for sentencing analysis, is proud to announce that it has been selected for a founder grant from Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, a global program that helps early-stage companies scale their businesses.
Sentencing Stats official Video guide to to U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Amendment 821, §4A1.1 Part B (retroactive), otherwise known as the Zero Point Offender amendment.
SentencingStats.com offers the free Amendment 821 Sentence Calculator and predictor. This tool helps defendants, families, and legal professionals calculate amended guideline sentence ranges, criminal history points, criminal history category, offense level and zone in seconds.
Read the latest expert opinion on Law360. co-authored by SentencingStats.com President Mark Allenbaugh, advisor Doug Passon legendary Federal attorney Alan Ellis predict how the Zero-Point Offender amendment (Amendment 821 Part A) will be implemented.
Forbes: What The US Sentencing Commission’s Decision Means For First Time Offenders
Today marks 30 years of federal sentencing under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. The Guidelines were intended to promote uniformity and certainty in sentencing while providing punishment proportional to the offense of conviction. Since then, over 1.7 million people have been sentenced to over 6.5 million YEARS of prison, which is to say nothing of the
Law360, New York (March 3, 2017, 12:31 PM EST) — As of this writing, the confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacancy, are set to begin on March 20, 2017. This article reviews a key opinion authored by Judge Gorsuch as
Now in their 30th year, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines (Guidelines) have been used to sentence well over 1.5 million defendants nationwide since Nov. 1, 1987, when they first went into effect. (See U.S. Sentencing Comm’n, 1996-2015 Sourcebooks on Federal Sentencing Statistics, Tbl. 10; U.S. Sentencing Comm’n, Quarterly Data Report (4th Quarter Release), Tbl. 1 (Sept.
U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policies are complex and difficult to understand— even defense lawyers find them taxing particularly so when it comes to medical and mental health issues. Clients and families are more often than not lost in the bureaucratic maze of terminology and regulations, and they turn to their lawyers for explanations. In